Critical heat flux (CHF) of subcooled flow boiling of alumina nanofluids in a horizontal microchannel

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 132, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1-7

  Vafaei, Saeid ^a   Wen, Dongsheng ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Burnout; Critical heat flux; Flow boiling; Microchannel; Nanofluids

Indexed keywords

BOILING SURFACES; BURNOUT; COMMON FEATURES; CRITICAL HEAT FLUX; FLOW BOILING; NANO-FLUID; NANOFLUIDS; NANOPARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; NANOPARTICLE DEPOSITION; OUTLET PRESSURES; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE; SINGLE MICROCHANNEL; SUBCOOLED FLOW BOILING; SURFACE TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

BOILING LIQUIDS; HEAT FLUX; MICROCHANNELS; NANOPARTICLES; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 77956137457     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4001629     Document Type: Article

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